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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA San Francisco Division JOHN DOE, Case No. 21-cv-09605-LB

Plaintiff, ORDER GRANTING IN PART AND

DENYING IN PART MOTION TO

v. DISMISS

REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF Re: ECF No.

CALIFORNIA,

15 Defendant. 16 INTRODUCTION The plaintiff is a 2021 medical school graduate who applied to residency programs in 2019 and 2020 but did not obtain a residency placement.1 The defendant, the Regents of the University of California, operated the medical school.2 The plaintiff claims violations of both federal and state law: age discrimination under the federal Age Discrimination Act of 1975 (claim one); age and disability discrimination, harassment, retaliation, and failure to prevent discrimination and retaliation under California’s Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) (claims two through six); and whistleblower retaliation under California Health and Safety Code § 1278.5…